Always Happy | These Days Collection | Melissa Vining

Hi everyone, Its Melissa here and I’m so happy to be back sharing my second layout created with the beautiful new “THESE DAYS” collection.   For this layout I really wanted to create a layout mixing two patterned papers as my background, and I chose “TAKE FLIGHT” and “FAMILY TIES”.  I love that one is subtle and the other is bold.  My photo is of my daughter and her TY soft toy collection, and the colours in my photo were perfect for the soft colours in These Days.

My sewing machine is broken at the moment, and ordinarily I would have stitched between the two papers, but I actually love that I distressed the edge of the white polka dot paper and left it lifted.  I added mixed media with inks and shimmery splatters, predominantly on the white paper to tie the two papers together.

I backed my photo with papers from the “A5 PAPER STACK” and embellished with lots of flowers and some leaves from the “FLORAL EPHEMERA”.  I also cut out one of the small cut aparts from the A5 Paper Stack and used it as additional journalling.

I fussy cut lots of butterflies from “TAKE FLIGHT” and placed them to look as though they flew over my photo.  I glued the centres down and lifted up the wings with dimensional adhesive.

The “FOAM TITLE STICKERS” were perfect for my title, and I love how the two words look nestled together.

I created a process video which you can watch below:

Have an awesome weekend!

Melissa xx